Price List and Printers' Purchasing Guide: Showing Specimens of Printing Type Manufactured by Marder, Luse & Co., Chicago, Illinois, U. S. A.Marder, Luse & Company, 1890 - 544 Seiten |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
24 Point 36 Point Agate Aldus Manutius antiquity with printing Bourgeois 18 Point Bourgeois 9 Boxing Brass Rule Brevier 8 Point brought forward Cabinet colon and full-point Columbian 32 Point Column comma was added Composing Sticks CONDENSED Double English 28 Double Great Primer Double Pica 24 Double Small Pica Electrotyped English 28 Point equal antiquity extra Feet forward the colon Four-Line Pica 48 Galley HALF NONPAREIL BORDER inches infant punctuation INTERCHANGEABLE TYPE BODIES introducing stops invention the necessity Italic letter lever machine MERICAN SYSTEM Minion necessity of introducing NEWSPAPER Nonpareil 6 Point OLD STYLE Paragon 40 Point pauses in sentences Pearl 10 Point perpendicular line Pica 12 Point PICA BORDER PICA COMB Price Primer 18 Point Primer 36 printers quarto racks Reglet restoration of learning sheet Six-Line Pica Small Pica 22 Steam fixtures stops or pauses Two-Line Brevier 16 Two-Line Nonpareil 12 Two-Line Pearl Two-Line Pica 24
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 227 - Fill up each hour with what will last; Buy up the moments as they go; The life above, when this is past, Is the ripe fruit of life below.
Seite 167 - Rule. — Multiply the diameter of the driver by its number of revolutions, and divide the product by the number of revolutions of the driven; the quotient will be its diameter.
Seite 192 - Points are not of equal antiquity with printing, though, not long after its invention, the necessity of introducing stops or pauses in sentences, for the guidance of the reader, brought forward the colon and full-point, the two first invented. In process of time, the comma was added to the infant punctuation, which then had no other figure than a perpendicular line, proportionable to the body of the letter; these three points were the only ones used till the close of the fifteenth century, when Aldus...
Seite 227 - Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find: Every man will be thy friend Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; But if store of crowns be scant, No man will supply thy want. If that one be prodigal, Bountiful they will him call, And with such-like flattering, 'Pity but he were a king...
Seite 180 - ... agree in the same method ; some making the pause of a semicolon where the sense will only bear a comma ; some contending for what is termed stiff pointing, and others altogether the reverse. The want of an established rule in this particular is much to be regretted.
Seite 308 - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.
Seite 112 - ... suspending-rods, so as to compress the springs just enough to give the platen a quick retrograde motion, observing at the same time to get the surface of the platen parallel with the surface of the bed. After having put the press together and levelled it...
Seite 192 - THEY consist of a comma, semicolon, colon, period or full-point, note of interrogation and note of admiration. Points are not of equal antiquity with printing, though, not long after its invention, the necessity of introducing stops or pauses in sentences, for the guidance of the reader, brought forward the colon and full-point, the two first invented. In process of time, the comma was added to the infant punctuation, which then had no other figure than a perpendicular line, proportionable to the...
Seite 168 - Leads for Newspapers. Table showing the number of leads, 13 ems pica long, contained in one pound, and the number required to lead...
Seite 196 - Scarcely nine works out of ten are sent properly prepared to the press; either the writing is illegible, the spelling incorrect, or the punctuation defective. The compositor has often to read sentences of his copy more than once before he can ascertain what he conceives the meaning of the author, that he may not deviate from him in the punctuation; this retards him considerably. But here it does not end — he, and the corrector of the press, though, perhaps, both intelligent and judicious men, differ...